by sd-7 33 Replies latest jw friends
Excellent replies on this thread...
I especially liked Heaven's comment -
"My suggestion: Go home. Whatever that means for you. If you don't know, do the thought processes to define it and then the physical task executions to create it. ..."
And Extractor -
"No one has ever read the Bible, come to the JW set of doctrines, and then set out to find a group that shares those beliefs." This is true because it is impossible to come to the JW set of doctrines by reading the Bible alone. ..."
Zid
The founder of the faith was an apostate, Charles Taze Russell, he didn't wait, he didn't stay with the flock. He saw errors and couldn't stay with it.
A religion that is structured financially around a publishing house is bound to be woefully and systematically corrupt in one way or another.
The WTS. in its seemingly short history as a religion has been stifled in its own corruption propagated upon its own devised doctrines,
but one must remember that the WTS. original doctrines were developed to draw and procure attention to its own published works.
The second most important doctrine to the WTS. was created with the intension on how to maintain its culled adherents.
When you really look at the WTS's doctrines as a whole you can see a very destructive accumulative amount of inhumane anti-social behaviors
for individuals who become a part of the organization, everything done circumvents direct power to the top editorial executives.
The WTS. doctrinal teachings are mostly made up of fear, hate and guilt,.... love, compassion and respect for humanity is at the bottom
of the list.
When Peter said, "Lord, to whom else shall we go?" he was expressing faith in Jesus despite the fact that others were leaving him because of some of his hard sayings.
When JWs ask, "Where else is there to go?" they often are asking it in a way that means, "Things are really bad in the WTS, but I'm stuck because every alternative is worse."
Imagine such a comment in the context of someone asking, "How is your marriage going?" and the answer being, "Where else can I go?"
